This group has been designated for adults age 18 or older. Please sign in and confirm your date of birth in your profile so we can verify your eligibility. You may opt to make your date of birth private.

From the Bookshelf of Multiculturalism in YA,Fantasy, Sci FI,Paranormal and fun books ;p…

Visual-Kei Rock Star

Shiree McCarver

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Oct 07, 2010 The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-erotic-romance, characters-black-heroines, theme-interracial-relationships, settings-japan, genre-interracial-romance, sub-genre-bw-am-romance, characters-japanese-heroes, characters-asian-heroes, omg-books-i-wish-i-d-written, genre-romance

Shiree McCarver is one of those authors whom, to borrow from Forrest Gump, is like a box of chocolates. One never knows what they're going to get when they crack open one of her novels.

I am a huge fan of the interracial romance/erotica genre and frankly I think that everyone else should be too (LOL). I mean isn't the "flaxen-haired wench and virile viking" kind of passe? Of course my favorite pairing is black women with men of varying races, but my big favorite is black women with asian men and Shiree McCarver is one of those authors whom, to borrow from Forrest Gump, is like a box of chocolates. One never knows what they're going to get when they crack open one of her novels.

I am a huge fan of the interracial romance/erotica genre and frankly I think that everyone else should be too (LOL). I mean isn't the "flaxen-haired wench and virile viking" kind of passe? Of course my favorite pairing is black women with men of varying races, but my big favorite is black women with asian men and Ms. McCarver delivers big time with her latest entry in her Musicians in Love series--Visual-Kei Rock Star.

A quick lesson here: Think of Visual-Kei as the Japanese version of glam rock and then pump it up on steroids. But don't let the drop-dead gorgeous androgyne looks fool you, VK rockers scream, shred and pound the skins with the best of them. One of my favorite guitarists, Hizaki from Versailles Philharmonic Quintet, decks in a flowing, rococo-style gown with blonde ringlets and can play circles around some of the best axe-men out there!

Visual Kei Rock Star is the highly emotional love story of Sadie Banks, a highly successful dancer/choreograper and Subaru Chouda, a muscial prodigy and lead guitarist/songwriter for a Japanese pop band. Sadie's ten years older than Subu, but the two of them have been friends for years. Time and tragedy have shaped them into adults who are emotionally wounded and emotionally immature, but hide their pain behind their success.

When they meet up again, Subu's a man in the midst of a crisis. He believes himself to be in love with the sexually-charged Riya, who's also the leader of the band. Riya keeps him on tenterhooks, needing both his incredible songwriting skills and his near-slavish devotion to her and she's willing to do anything to keep all that pent-up frustration on her alone. Subu thinks her treating him like child has to do with his lack of bedroom skills--he's a virgin--and he's determined to end that state of affairs once and for all.

Enter Sadie--a woman he'd been fantasizing about for years and now that he's a full-grown man, wants her to be his instructor in the arts of love. And Sadie, though she's used to seeing Subu as that quiet and withdrawn young boy, realizes uncomfortably that, in spite of his feminine features and slender but sculpted body, she wants him too and she feels guilty about it. However, it doesn't take the persistent Subu long to convince Sadie that she's the one he wants, but when love strikes them both, one is ready to embrace it head-on, the other is still unsure. Sadie loves Subu, but wants him to fulfill his destiny to front his own band, wrote his own music and just basically be the boss. Subu wants his dream and he wants Sadie too. The conflict comes to a head with an act of betrayal that could easily destroy them...

Yes Virginia, there are indeed love scenes in this novel and what makes them memorable is that the hero isn't a man-slut, but that doesn't detract from his masculinity one iota. Subu's an eager student and while there's steamy heat, there's also laughter and sigh-worthy moments and few authors dare to make the reader crack a chuckle while they're warming their insides.

What I truly enjoy about McCarver's Asian heroes is that she doesn't fall back on lame stereotypes. There are no geeky nerds or chop-socky types. She doesn't fetishize them, but writes beautiful, talented and proud men who find and keep the women they love. She also has a deep respect of the cultures she writes about and if anything, reading Visual Kei Rock Star might generate interest in this style of music (which I have been a huge fan of for years).

Visual Kei Rock Star is full of twists and turns, happiness and sorrow and characters who are so vivid that when they anger you, you want to smack them. These are not perfect people--Sadie and Subu and many of the others around them are both scarred and scared. ...more

4 likes · Like · see review

Nov 04, 2012 Nekeeva rated it really liked it

Jan 11, 2014 Danyell Wallace rated it really liked it

Jul 25, 2014 Mstcat marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Jul 26, 2014 Jen marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Feb 26, 2015 Jamilla rated it it was amazing

Group Home Bookshelf Discussions

Photos Videos

Send invite Members Polls

From the Bookshelf of Multiculturalism in YA,Fantasy, Sci FI,Paranormal and fun books ;p…

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

What Members Thought

Multiculturalism in YA,Fantasy, Sci...